[mythtv-users] Windows + SandyBridge + Direct3d/OpenGL Video Issues

Mark Kendall mark.kendall at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 17:10:39 UTC 2012


On 27 January 2012 13:59, Ben Curtis <mythtv at nosolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone here attempting to run MythTV in Windows? I've got a
> Sandbridge i3 machine that I've set up running Windows 7 64bit that
> I've been using as a media player and have just now set up as a
> Mythfrontend to replace the older Linux machine.
>
> However, I have some playback issues when rendering. Setting the
> renderer to Standard or libmpeg2 doesn't seem to make a difference,
> but switching from Direct3D to OpenGL does:
>
> Direct3D:
> - Video freezes and stutters on x264 720p playback.
> - A random black checkerboard of pixels will come up on screen every
> few seconds.
> - When the OSD is displayed, the screen "blinks" to black and back
>
> OpenGL
> - Video freezes and stutters on x264 720p playback.
> - When the OSD is displayed, the video is squashed to the top 1/5th of
> the screen, while the rest of the screen is black.
>

What version are you running?

regards

Mark


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